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Bergistāni or Vergistāni, ōrum, m., a community of robbers in Hispania Tarraconensis, Liv. 34, 16, 9; 34, 17, 5; 34, 21, 6.

Vergĭlĭae, ārum, f. [vergo], the constellation of the seven stars, that rises at the end of spring, the Pleiades, Cic. N. D. poët. 2, 44, 112; Auct. B. Afr. 47; Isid. Orig. 3, 70; cf. Fest. p. 372 Müll.

Vergĭlĭo-cento, ōnis, m. [Vergiliuscento], a poem made up of scraps from Vergil, Hier. Ep. 103, 7.

Vergĭlĭus (not Virgĭlĭus; the form Ver- is supported by the ancient MSS. and inscriptions in unbroken succession, to the fourth century A.D.; v. Ritschl, Opusc. Phil. 2, 779 sq.), ii, m., the name of a Roman gens; so, esp., P. Vergilius Maro, a celebrated Roman poet, Hor. C. 1, 3, 6; 1, 24, 10; 4, 12, 13; id. S. 1, 5, 40.
Hence, Vergĭlĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Vergil, Vergilian: virtus, Plin. praef. § 22: illud, Quint. 1, 3, 13: VERGILIANVS POËTA, a writer of a cento of Vergilian verses, Inscr. Grut. 64, 5.